Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to….

Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-….

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant..

The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever….

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom..

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the futur….

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psyc….

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology..

The suburbs dream of violence..

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there..

It seems to me that what most of us have to fear for the future is not that something terrible is going to happen, but rather that nothing is going t….

So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southward through the increasing rai….

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as acto….

All you do is get on and start pedaling . . ..

Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime..

I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you..

The only truly alien planet is Earth..

Sex times technology equals the future..

I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crim….

A visit to Père Lachaise in Paris adds a year to one's life.

Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic and the merits of….